easier blue box

[bitbox]

im almost done with mines.  i wish.  i got my project box today with circuit board.  im looking at what chips to buy

[Tachyon]

I'm just watching the project MF dvd now and damn this is cool. I suppose if you wanted to be lame, you could record blue box tones to an mp3 player and use that, millenium-era redbox style.

[I-baLL]

I'm just watching the project MF dvd now and damn this is cool. I suppose if you wanted to be lame, you could record blue box tones to an mp3 player and use that, millenium-era redbox style.

Won't work. Kinda. You need to be able to control the timing of the tones and that's going to be impossible to easily change on the fly with an mp3/tape/wav/whatever bluebox.

[Tachyon]

Maybe a cheap PDA then. You could even synthesize the tones from scratch with one of those, I remember using a stock synth program to teach a friend of mine about redboxing. He later turned out to be a bit of a nazi and moved away.

[trevelyn]

whatever dewd, i have done this you just need to set the timing in the software you use to create the tones, I use Sony Soundforge.  But you need good foresight before venturing off with your tones.  for number dialing and such, record the full phone numbers with the 2600 in front, dont forget KP and ST. the timings are a pain sometimes, but if you set up a project mf box you will know exactly what to set them to.  (in ms)
 

[Chartreuse]

Why don't you just add all the MF tones to your i pod which are the right length and use the on the go playlist to play them in order.

[Tachyon]

I suggested that like a million fucking posts back. It won't work because you'd need to have superpowers to hit them fast enough.

[Nod]

You didn't even mention that this thread was more than two months old before he raised it from the dead as a flesh eating monster that will kill everyone on this forum.

[Wino]

Stamp kits are cheaper on ebay, still around the $40-$50 range. Search for Parallax. In high school I was part of a robotics team and we used one of their processors, and it was pretty kick ass. Keep in mind they use "PBASIC", which just has a few different reserved words and functions, but still crazy simple. When I was at it I never thought of attaching a speaker to see what I could do, but I'm sure it's possible.

But! I'm sure it can be done even cheaper, stamp kits are way more expensive compared to just buying a microprocessor and building the pic programmer. Since you're not really good with soldering you might just want to stick with something pre-built, or learn how to solder from NASA videos! http://radiojove.gsfc.nasa.gov/telescope/soldering.htm

Most of the time shitty soldering jobs come from shitty soldering irons. They're super useful, I recently lost mine in a move, but it's worth the $100 when it works for years. Get something with a solder stand, and probably the most important thing is a temperature. Sponges are nice too.

I'm guessing that your trouble comes from too much solder, in which case you can get de-soldering webbing, check radio shack around where you find the solder, there's also a "solder sucker" that looks kind of like a hypodermic needle, but works in reverse. For solder, all I've ever used is rosin core, usually a thin gauge (but not too thin, think of something about 1mm thickish, but it's all personal preference.

Just a thought, since someone else already resurrected the thread.

-wino

[CerealKiller]

[Scienceman123]

Isn't blue boxing obsolete?

[Nod]

This thread is resurrected more than Jesus